Het leven zoals het is…

Antwerp sightseeing… guided tour for my foreign friends! (part 3)

Today my mum has to buy something for her human sister. Therefore we go to the old city of Antwerp.

Mum, will you take the blinking thing with you? Then we do a ‘fototoot’ in the city!

A photoshoot, Kita, a photoshoot! That’s a good idea! Be a good dale, then, will you?

Yes mum, I’m an airedale-lady, you should know that! My mum says the weather is to misty and cloudy for good pictures. But we are here, so she makes them anyway! We had a lot of fun, I tell you everything with the photos.
One very special thing to mention for very special fans: There were a lot of people of your country on the Handschoenmarkt, they were looking to the story of the dog. When mum and me passed by, everyone asked if they could make a picture of us, of me of course!!!, with the story, told in their language. So, there will be a lot of Kita-pictures in your country, soon! But none of them persons got me a duck :-(, as you did! 🙂 By the way: I still play with it!

So we did a tour in the city! Lots of people remarked me being an airedale and came to say hello! I was very pleased and was an excellent girl: I didn’t pull on the leash, not once. I even didn’t jump up… oh, yes just once, but the madam made me do it… 😉My mum, she was surprised?!!! Wonder why, she should know I’m a lady! 😉

I even waited gently for the last one of the French fries at noon! I lay down and waited politely! I was proud of myself, I have to say that!

And now, I’m taking a very long nap… zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

Circus in town? Yes, but mum thinks I’m not allowed there! Gggrrrr

We arrive on the Groenplaats. (Green place) No, the place is not green, it’s the name of this square.

That one is a painter: Pieter Paul Rubens. Hey, special fans, you recognize him? Although it’s not raining? 🙂

The flowermarket!

That man is cleaning the streets of the city!

The Handschoenmarkt! (Glove market) There are almost no people today! Normally you can find lots of tourists here…

These man are to be found very near the wall of our beautiful cathedral!

Map of the old city!

That’s a lot of me and a little bit of the cathedral, behind me! 😉

That’s the story of the dog….

Here I was pictured by a lot of people! 🙂

That’s the shop we are going to!

Look, mum, there are the bags!!! There we have to be!!!

A bookshop! This shop has a nice and Original publicity for his store!

Yes, mum, I will sit down for the picture, I know you like books and you think they are important. I’ll show you that you are right and I sit like a book-lady!

Here we are on the Grote Markt! The one who is throwing the hand over there is Brabo! He is an Antwerp hero! He killed a giant and threw his hand in the river Scheldt.

Brabo, the hero!

I do a little sightseeing myself… 😉

No, mum, no way that I go near these horses for a pic.

The Town hall of Antwerp!

More sightseeing… 😉 Interesting here, really!

Look over there! A castle! Het Steen!

There is the giant, killed by Brabo! He has a statue too!

Castle is very old!!

I’m looking at the river Scheldt, I wan’t jump on the railing, I’m a bit afraid!

That’s what I see: the river Scheldt!

We turn back, you see the cathedral?

The French fries for my mum!

I have a good look at them!

But I wait very patiently and politely, as a lady does!!! 😉

We pass again by the shop where mum bought the Antwerp-bag for her sister!

Hey, special fan! Do you come over? Shall I wait for you here??

The cathedral. It’s high, very high!

Again for the special fan and next one too!!!!!

Whet do you say mum? The fans with the duck don’t come today? That’s a pity!!

No, mum, no way I go down by those moving stairs! No way! I already bark once, so don’t you dare!!!

Here we go to the Meir: the biggest shop-“street” in Antwerp. You can take a bike here, go somewhere and put it back at another place. Need to buy a special card first though!

Meir.

Mum, you hear the music that young guy makes?

Yes, mum, I smile, I like it very much too!

We go to Central Station.

In Central Station there are normal stairs and an elevator to go down in the metro! Mum is a smart lady… 🙂

Look, American folks, what we have in Antwerp?

And here we wait for the metrotrain to go home! That’s the one in the wrong direction!

Hello Pipsa. Fine that you like my town! if you ever come to Antwerp, tell me in time, we could meet and have a drink together! 🙂
Kisses to you and Arska from Kita (and of my mum of course, but she’s at work now… sssst)